Exception when removing player component running on Ubuntu Linux

Question

Hi,
when I remove the player component from the GUI, I get the following exception on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (Unity).
The project started 10 years ago and was running without any problems on windows, Mac, Linux.
I didn't test it on other linux distributions or desktop environments.
Catching the exception helps but this is somewhat ugly....
I'm using JMF 2.1.1e, Cross Platform Version.
On win7/8 no problems.
Any ideas?
TIA
gve
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null source
    at java.util.EventObject.<init>(EventObject.java:56)
    at java.awt.AWTEvent.<init>(AWTEvent.java:337)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.<init>(InvocationEvent.java:224)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.<init>(InvocationEvent.java:188)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.<init>(InvocationEvent.java:150)
    at sun.awt.X11.XBaseMenuWindow.dispose(XBaseMenuWindow.java:907)
    at java.awt.MenuComponent.removeNotify(MenuComponent.java:310)
    at java.awt.Menu.removeNotify(Menu.java:198)
    at java.awt.Component.removeNotify(Component.java:6980)
    at com.sun.media.renderer.video.HeavyComponent.removeNotify(HeavyComponent.java:50)
    at java.awt.Container.removeAll(Container.java:1290)

Answer 1

I too am having this problem. On all of my linux distributions, including Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, knoppix 5,1, fedora 8,9,10 flashplayer 10 is broken in the same way.  It reports that it cannot find webcam, and the settings dialog refuses to recognize mouse clicks.  I've poked around the web quite a bit and have not yet found a solution.  I saw the problem mentioned on an adobe bug reporting site and their response was to close the issue saying it wasn't repeatable on their system.  I tried to re-open it and my post was deleted without comment (I may have posted incorrectly or something)
Looking here  and elsewhere I see that the problem is very common and I don't see any posted bug-fixes, or even acknowledgement that a bug exists.  Has adobe lost interest in being cross-platform compatible?